PAUL MEIER, M.D

Dr. & Mrs. Paul Meier

Education:

Dr. Paul Meier received his Masters of Science in Cardiovascular Physiology from Michigan State University and a Medical Degree (M.D.) from the University of Arkansas College of Medicine. Dr. Meier completed his psychiatric residency at Duke University. Dr. Meier attended Graduate courses at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois in 1975-76 while on full-time faculty. He also holds a Master of Arts degree from Dallas Theological Seminary, where he also served on full time faculty in pastoral counseling for 12 years.

Specialty Training and Experience:

Paul Meier is an MD/Psychiatrist/Ordained minister who is the founder of the national chain of non-profit Christian Psychiatry clinics, the Meier Clinics. He has authored 81 books, mostly Christian self-help books like Love is a Choice and Happiness is a Choice, but also a series of Bible Prophecy novels, like The Third Millennium. He has been on many secular and Christian TV and radio shows, including Oprah Winfrey, Tom Snyder, Norman Vincent Peale, Joyce Meyer and many others. He has also traveled to countries all over the world to train both professional and lay counselors, as well as missionaries and pastors, in the field of Christian Counseling. He taught full-time for twelve years at Dallas Theological Seminary, where he spent lots of extra time discipling promising young students like Tony Evans, John Trent, John Townsend, Henry Cloud and many others.

He has also lectured at seminaries around the world including Southwestern Seminary in Ft. Worth, the Baptist Seminary in Cuba, and the Greek Bible Institute and Seminary in Athens. He was the team physician for a mountain climbing expedition in 1985, to climb Mt. Ararat with American astronaut Jim Irwin, to find Noah’s Ark. Dr. Meier’s team were chased away by terrorists, whom the Turkish soldiers promptly found within two days and executed on the spot. His clinics have launched many ministries, including Women of Faith, which he and Steve Arterburn started after not enough people showed up for their own seminars; so they hired women speakers to speak to women and it worked! About two million people have trusted Christ through various Meier Clinic counseling sessions and ministries. His 144 Christian psychiatrists and psychologists and therapists, in over 30 cities, see over three thousand clients each week, and they do more than two million dollars a year of charitable care.

Dr. Meier also serves as a political consultant to many of the nations top political leaders, and attends private meetings with them annually.

Dr. Meier's daily prayer partner is Dr. Jean-Luc Bertrand, of Paris. Dr. Meier's previous daily prayer partner died of a heart attack in March of 2002, and a permanent Chair (scholarship) was named after Dr. David Larson in the Library of Congress, because over half of the medical schools in the United States now have courses on spirituality that Dr. Larson designed. The only other permanent Chair in the Library of Congress belongs to Henry Kissinger. The Association of Christian Counselors, in 2003, honored Dr. Meier as a father of the Christian Psychology movement, and Christian Today Magazine has called Dr. Meier a "Modern Day Reformer" -- for moving Christianity more toward an openness to admitting faults, getting counseling, being less legalistic, and even a willingness to take psychiatric medications if necessary.

Television and Radio

Dr. Meier is a frequent guest on numerous radio and television programs, such as those hosted by:

* Oprah Winfrey
* Tom Snyder
* Norman Vincent Peale
* Joyce Meyer’s Enjoying Everyday Life television show as a weeklong guest speaker as well as subsequent appearances on her program
* Joni Television show on the Daystar television network
* Praise the Lord Show on TBN
* Paula White Show
* Has been interviewed on Radio Free Europe, and
* Has appeared in a French television documentary discussing Christian psychiatry.

Speaker

Dr. Meier has been a guest speaker for three years in a row at Awakening, an annual weekend retreat designed as an opportunity for business and political leaders to exchange ideas, examine trends and learn from leading authorities and policy makers in a variety of fields. He has, again, been invited to speak for this group at their next meeting in 2007. Dr. Meier was honored and acknowledged in 2007 by President George Bush, members of the U.S. Congress and the NRCC as a Physician of the Year Honoree.

Publications (Authored and Co-Authored):

1. Ask The Doctors - Questions and Answers
2. Beating Burnout - Balanced Living for Busy People
3. Beating the Clock - A Guide to Maturing Successfully
4. Before Burnout - Balanced Living for Busy People
5. Beyond the Millennium (fictional novel)
6. Blue Genes - Breaking free from the chemical imbalances that affect your moods, your mind, your life, and your loved ones.
7. Bruised and Broken - Understanding Psychological Problems
8. Caring for Aging Loved Ones
9. Christian Child Rearing and Personality Development - Guide to Parenting
10. Compelled to Achieve - Finding Balance Between Success and Access
11. The Complete Book of Baby and Child Care
12. The Complete Life Encyclopedia - A Family Resource
13. Counseling and the Nature of Man
14. Crazymakers
15. Don't™ Let Jerks Get the Best of You - Dealing with Impossible People
16. Everything I Learned Since I Knew It All! (to be released in 2008)
17. The Fakers - Exploding the Myths of the Supernatural
18. Family Foundations - How to Have a Happy Home
19. Fear Less for Life - Break Free to Living with Hope and Confidence
20. Filling the Holes in our Souls - Effective Small Groups
21. First Time Parents
22. The First Two Years
23. Formula for a Happy Marriage
24. The Fourth Millennium (fictional novel)
25. Free to Forgive - Daily Devotions for Adult Children of Abuse
26. Growing In Step - Your Guide to Successful Step-parenting
27. Happiness Is A Choice - A Manual on the Symptoms, Causes, and Cures of Depression
28. Happiness Is A Choice for Teens
29. Happy Holidays - How to Beat the Holiday Blues
30. The Healthy Christian Life - Bible Study Guide
31. The Healthy Pastor
32. How to Beat Burnout - Help for Men and Women
33. Introduction to Psychology and Counseling (textbook)
34. Love Hunger - Recovery from Food Addiction
35. Love Hunger Weight-Loss Workbook
36. Love Is A Choice - Recovery for Codependent Relationships
37. Meditating for Success (booklet
38. Miracle Drugs - How They Work and What You Should Know About Them
39. The Monster With - Overcoming Bulimia
40. Mood Swings - Understand Your Emotional Highs and Lows
41. Money Diet - Biblical Prescriptions for Financial Success
42. A Mother's™ Choice - Day Care or Home Care
43. A Mother's™ Choice - A Guide to Responsible Parenting
44. Moving from Depression and Anxiety to Christ-centered Optimism
45. 100 Ways to Live a Happy and Successful Life - Overcoming Depression
46. 100 Ways to Obtain Peace - Overcoming Anxiety
47. 100 Ways to Overcome Depression
48. Overcoming Loneliness
49. The Path to Serenity - Growth Through the 12-Step Recovery
50. Post-Partum Survival
51. Raising Your Child - From Birth to Twelve
52. Renewing Your Mind in a Secular World
53. Safe Places - Finding Serenity in the Passages of Life
54. Secret Code (fictional novel)
55. Seven Secrets for a Happy Family
56. Sex in the Christian Marriage - Maintaining the Honeymoon
57. Sexual Addiction - Identifying the Problem, Seeking God's™ Direction, Taking Control
58. Stress Factors - Thriving Emotionally and Spiritually
59. Sweet Dreams - A Guide to Productive Sleep
60. Taking Control - New Hope for Substance Abusers and Their Families
61. Teen Health
62. The Third Millennium (fictional novel)
63. Unbreakable Bonds - Practicing the Art of Loving and Being Loved
64. Walk With the Serenity Prayer - Daily Devotions for People in Recovery
65. What they Didn't™ Teach You in Seminary - Managing the Demands of the Pastorate
66. Why Be Lonely?- A Guide to Meaningful Relationships
67. Windows of the Soul - A Look at Dreams and Their Meanings
68. Winning is a Choice
69. The Workaholic and His Family - An Inside Look
70. Worry-Free Living - Turning Anxiety into a Positive Tool
71. WWJD? - The Question that Will Change Your Life (devotion)
72. You Can Save Your Marriage (booklet)
73. You Can Measure Your Mental Health (booklet)
74. You Can Measure Your Spiritual Health (booklet)
75.  What I've Learned Since I Knew It All *NEW*

Active Memberships:

Christian Medical and Dental Society
American Medical Association
American Psychiatric Association
Dallas County Medical Society

In addition to his busy speaking and writing schedule, Dr. Meier treats patients at The Meier Clinics and Day Program in Richardson, Texas, located in the Dallas metroplex.  Dr. Meier and his wife Ann reside in Dallas, Texas.